i am not an art history major

here is art i like.

pinkhorrorshow: A gallery with no sculptures, only a cloud floating within the space. ‘Nimbus’ is a new installation of Amsterdam-based artist Berndnaut Smilde, who refuses to explain how he managed to create a real cloud.

pinkhorrorshow:

A gallery with no sculptures, only a cloud floating within the space. ‘Nimbus’ is a new installation of Amsterdam-based artist Berndnaut Smilde, who refuses to explain how he managed to create a real cloud.

(via sashayed)

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ruineshumaines:

Aerial is a new site-specific installation by Baptiste Debombourg at an old Benedictine monastery called Brauweiler Abbey near Cologne, Germany. Debombourg used numerous sheets of shattered laminate glass to mimic a frothy flood of water rushing into a room.

(via bahaghari)

whistlesing: cavetocanvas: Janine Antoni, Gnaw, 1992. 600 lbs. of chocolate and 600 lbs of lard gnawed by the artist. yes.

whistlesing:

cavetocanvas:

Janine Antoni, Gnaw, 1992. 600 lbs. of chocolate and 600 lbs of lard gnawed by the artist.

yes.

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cavetocanvas: Janine Antoni, Loving Care, 1993 In [this] early piece […], Antoni crept across a gallery on her hands and knees, dipping her long hair in a bucket of hair dye and painting the floor with it. (via)

cavetocanvas:

Janine Antoni, Loving Care, 1993

In [this] early piece […], Antoni crept across a gallery on her hands and knees, dipping her long hair in a bucket of hair dye and painting the floor with it. (via)

(via bahaghari)

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mormonhair:

doxophobic:

Angela Ellsworth

Seer Bonnets

constructed of pioneer women’s bonnets and thousands of pearl pins

2009


“Ellsworth’s ‘seer bonnets: a continuing offense’ (2009-2010) refers to her rejected mormon heritage presented through series of antiquated pioneer women’s bonnets, constructed out of thousands of pearl-tipped corsage pins embedded into fabric with their points directed inwards. the small, fetish-like objects not only refer to the tradition of craft work in the home - women’s work - but also stand as disembodied memorials to the lives suffering cruelty, submission and control.”

an FLDS-inspired performance piece by Angela Ellsworth

see more fundamentalist mormon and/or polygamy inspired art

devidsketchbook:

Photographer Kevin Haines - FEATURED: AI WEIWEI SUNFLOWER SEEDS. THE TATE 

Ai Weiwei demonstrates that a staggering quantity of individual seeds may produce a deceptively unified field. The work is a commentary on social, political and economic issues pertinent to contemporary China. ‘The Role Of The Individual Versus The Masses’

Via Kevin Haines 

(via howtonotsuckatart)